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Guinness Book of Climate Crap

James Delingpole writes for today's Australian about the book: Guinness World Records. James asks "Since when, anyway, did it become the job of a book specialising in
world records (hence - duh! - its title Guinness World Records) to
disseminate alarmist propaganda about climate change?"

On pages 34 and 35 of the latest edition of the book that used to be called The Guinness Book of Records, James notes:

"....here was a whole section that had mysteriously been devoted to the
deadly threat of "climate change". I say "mysteriously" because, despite
the publishers' feeble attempt to hide the fact by heading the section
"To the Limits", it contains very little by way of actual world records."

Rather, what you get is scaremongering eco-propaganda so blatant and
biased it might have come straight off a Greenpeace press release.

Here's
one example: "Fact: Pine Island glacier in Antarctica is shrinking by
at least 16m a year and may be gone in 100 years," it says. This may or
may not be true but it's an odd thing to single out, given that the most
salient climate fact about Antarctica is that its ice mass has been
increasing dramatically.

In fact there is a record that Guiness could have recorded. Antarctic Ice has hit a record high.

In fact, in late September, satellite data indicated that Antarctica was
surrounded by the greatest area of sea ice ever recorded in the region:
7.51 million square miles (19.44 million square kilometers), the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Thursday. (National Geographic - link)

James continues:

And here's another: "Hockey Stick Graph.
Published by the UN's Intergovernmental on Planet Change in 2001, this
graph is one of the most controversial in science." What it doesn't tell
the impressionable young reader is why the graph is controversial: it
has been so utterly and repeatedly discredited that almost no one, save
its inventor Michael Mann and a few of his mates, takes it remotely
seriously any more.

It is amazing that a fraudulent graph still dupes some people including the Guinness people (link)

James asks why a book of records starts to push eco-propaganda.

Since when, anyway, did it become the job of a book specialising in
world records (hence - duh! - its title Guinness World Records) to
disseminate alarmist propaganda about climate change? Don't our kids
already get fed more than enough of that hysterical drivel by their
teachers, by Greg Combet and Tim Flannery, by every other doco on the
ABC? Isn't this exactly why Ian Plimer wrote How To Get Expelled From
School as a desperate attempt to counteract all the environmental
brainwashing to which our kids are now constantly subjected?

Sir Henry Fraser has an impressive CV.
Barbados' newest knight, retired university professor, Dr. Henry Fraser, received the Accolade of Knight of St. Andrew, in the 2014 Independence Day Hours. Sir Henry Fraser was named as a result of The Knighthood of St. Andrew being bestowed on him for his outstanding contribution to the medical profession and representation of Barbadian culture, especially in the area of its architectural history.Sir Henry, a medical practitioner by profession, has worked for many years as a lecturer in medicine at the University of the West Indies and now serves as an Independent Senator in the Barbados Parliament where he has gained an outstanding reputation for his work on the historic treasures of Barbados.

He has received a plethora of other awards, including the UWI’s Pelican Award, Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and the Gold Crown of Merit (GCM) in the Barbados Honours of 1992.